21 Bottles of Booze in the Cart--Thief Thwarted in Bid to Steal Hundreds of Dollars Worth of Liquor: Cops

A Sauk Village man’s bid to boost 21 bottles of booze from the Tinley Park Super Target failed when he was spotted by a security guard, police said.

Eddie W. Jackson’s escape attempt was also foiled when a Tinley Park cop pulled him over as he was fleeing in a white box truck.

Jackson, 47, allegedly loaded up a shopping cart with $385.79 worth of liquor and rolled it out of the store.

A security guard stopped Jackson and told him to go back inside, police said. But as the guard was pushing the cart of liquor into the store, “Jackson ran away from (him) out of the vestibule and through the parking lot and entered a white box truck with orange doors, which was parked in the parking lot, and fled out of the Brookside Marketplace shopping plaza.”

Jackson was captured near the corner of 182nd Street and Harlem Avenue.

Jackson was charged with felony retail theft “based on both the dollar amount of stolen goods and multiple prior arrests for retail theft,” police said. He was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and unspecified traffic violations, police said.

Jackson was taken to the Will County jail. His bond was set at $100,000 and he remains in custody.

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